Daily Calendar for Friday, November 27, 2015

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Anders Celsius (astronomer; born in Uppsala, Sweden) – 1701
James Agee (writer) – 1909
Buffalo Bob Smith (entertainer, Howdy Doody host) – 1917
Bruce Lee (martial artist & actor) – 1940
Jimi Hendrix (musician) – 1942
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (daughter of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) – 1957
Fisher Stevens (actor) – 1963
Michael Vartan (actor) – 1968

Shakespeare got a license to marry Anne Hathaway – 1582
The American Statistical Association founded in Boston – 1839
Spectacular Andromedid meteor storm, 13,000 per hour – 1885
The U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C. – 1901
Penn. Station opened in New York City – 1910
C.A.R.E. founded – 1945
Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scored 18 baskets in a row – 1963
In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by former supervisor Dan White – 1978
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 2.0 was released, starting the first browser war (with Netscape’s Navigator) – 1995

The Portland Storm brought 27 inches of snow to New London, Connecticut – 1898
0.5” snow began falling in northern Florida – 1912
Tallahassee, Florida, experienced freezing temperatures, with a low of 20 degrees F – 1950
A blizzard with lightning struck parts of South Dakota – 1983